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ISHMAEL
WADADA LEO SMITH:
trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist, composer and improviser has been
active in creative contemporary music for over forty years. His systemic
music language Ankhrasmation is significant in his development as an artist and educator.
Born in Leland,
Mississippi, Smith's early musical life began in the high school concert
and marching bands. At the age of thirteen, he became involved with the
Delta Blues and Improvisation music traditions. He received his formal
musical education with his stepfather Alex Wallace, the U.S. Military
band program (1963), Sherwood School of Music (1967-69), and Wesleyan
University (1975-76). Mr. Smith has studied a variety of music
cultures: African, Japanese, Indonesian, European and American.
He has taught at
the University of New Haven (1975-'76), the Creative Music Studio in
Woodstock, NY (1975-'78), and Bard College (1987-'93). He is currently a
faculty member at The Herb Alpert School of Music at California
Institute of the Arts. He is the director of the African-American
Improvisational Music program, and is a member of ASCAP, Chamber Music
America, and the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.
Mr. Smith's awards
and commissions include:
MAP Fund Award for “Ten Freedom Summers” (2011), Chamber Music America
New Works Grant (2010), NEA Recording Grant (2010), Fellow of the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (2009-2010), Other Minds residency
and "Taif", a string quartet commission (2008), Fellow of the Jurassic
Foundation (2008), FONT(Festival of New Trumpet) Award of Recognition
(2008), Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Award (2005), Islamic World
Arts Initiative of Arts International (2004), Fellow of the Civitela
Foundation (2003), Fellow at the Atlantic Center for the Arts (2001),
"Third Culture Copenhagen" in Denmark-presented a paper on Ankhrasmation
(1996), Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Commissioning
Program (1996), Asian Cultural Council Grantee to Japan (June-August
1993), Meet the Composer/Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Commissioning
Program (1990), New York Foundation on the Arts Fellowship in Music
(1990), Numerous Meet the Composer Grants (since 1977), and National
Endowment for the Arts Music Grants (1972, 1974, 1981).
Mr. Smith's music philosophy Notes (8 Pieces) Source a New. World Music: Creative Music has been published by Kiom Press (1973), translated and published in Japan by Zen-On Music Company Ltd. (1976). In 1981 Notes was translated into Italian and published by Nistri-Litschi Editori.
He was invited to a
conference of artists, scientists and philosophers "Third Culture
Copenhagen" in Denmark 1996, and presented a paper on his Ankhrasmation
music theory and notational system for creative musicians. His interview
was recorded for Denmark T.V., broadcasted September 1996.
Some of the
artists Mr. Smith has performed with are : Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony
Braxton, Leroy Jenkins, Roscoe Mitchell, Lester Bowie, Richard
Teitelbaum, Joseph Jarman, George Lewis, Cecil Taylor, Andrew Cyrill,
Oliver Lake, Anthony Davis, Carla Bley, David Murray, Don Cherry, Jeanne
Lee, Milton Campbell, Henry Brant, Richard Davis, Tadao Sawai, Ed
Blackwell, Sabu Toyozumi, Peter Kowald, Kazuko Shiraishi, Han Bennink,
Misja Mengelberg, Marion Brown, Kazutoki Umezu, Kosei Yamamoto, Charlie
Haden, Kang Tae Hwan, Kim Dae Hwan, Tom Buckner, Malachi Favors
Magoustous and Jack Dejohnette among many others.
Mr. Smith currently
has three ensembles: Golden Quartet, Silver Orchestra, and Organic.
His compositions have also been performed by other contemporary music
ensembles: AACM-Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Da Capo Chamber Player, New
Century Players, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Contemporary
Chamber Players (University of Chicago), S.E.M. Ensemble, Southwest
Chamber Music, Del Sol String Quartet, New York New Music Ensemble,
ne(x)tworks, and California E.A.R. Unit.
Mr. Smith's music
for multi-ensembles has been performed since 1969. "Tabligh" for
double-ensemble was performed by Golden Quartet and Classical Persian
ensemble at Merkin Concert Hall (2006) and by Golden Quartet and
Suleyman Erguner's Classical Turkish ensemble at Akbank Music Festival
in Istanbul (2007). His largest work "Odwira" for 12 multi-ensembles
(52 instrumentalists) was performed at California Institute of the Arts
(March 1995). His Noh piece "Heart Reflections" was performed in Merkin
Concert Hall, NY (November 1996).
© 1997-2011 Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
© 1997-2011 Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith
